Melendez v. New York City Housing Authority

—Order, Supreme Court, New York County (Sheila Abdus-Salaam, J.), entered December 14, 1999, which, in an action for defamation and discriminatory termination of employment in violation of Labor Law § 201-d (2) (a), granted defendants’ motion for summary judgment dismissing the complaint to the extent of dismissing the Labor Law cause of action, unanimously modified, on the law, to reinstate the Labor Law cause of action, and otherwise affirmed, without costs.

The motion court properly sustained the defamation cause of action, alleging statements by the individual defendant, the highest…